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==Season 3== |
==Season 3== |
Revision as of 19:01, 28 April 2007
Welcome Freshmen was a television show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1993. The show took place at Hawthorne High School with a group of high school students and a bumbling principal.
Welcome Freshmen was filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida.
Seasons 1 and 2
The earlier episodes of the series consisted of comedy sketches that loosely followed a theme. Some of the comedy routines involved a tortoise teaching children about safety, a documentarian who talks about past generations of freshmen, the principal imagining himself as a stand-up comedian, and a student who, though his appearance was occasional, provided not only a good example of how not to behave, but also a good example of flatulence.
Each episode had two or three short skits about the gang's misadventures in high school.
Other recurring skits
- Mr. Lippman, the Vice Principal doing the morning announcements (at the same time, imagining how he'd *really* like to say them).
- A Merv-u-mentary, Merv's amateurish attempt at uncovering news and scandals at the high school.
- Mr. History, featuring the gang as high school students of a past time period.
- Mike Who, featuring close-ups of a sidelined high school basketball player who can drive the crowd wild with a single wave.
Season 3
In the later episodes, the sketch comedy format was abandoned and an episode would follow a plot in its entirety. In essence, Welcome Freshmen became more of a standard situation comedy.
In the third season, the gang became sophomores, except Walter who flunked and was held behind. Merv and Tara left, and new characters came in: Manny and Erin (incoming freshmen) and Grant, a junior who was Erin's brother and soon became Alex's boyfriend.
Cast
- Jocelyn Steiner as Alex Moore
- Rick Galloway as Walter Patterson
- Chris Lobban as Kevin St. James
- Veronica Alicino as Miss Topaz (1991-1993)
- Arian Waring Ash as Erin Kelly (1992-1993)
- Janis Benson as Miss Petruka
- Brock Bradley as Grant Kelly (1992-1993)
- Nicholas Caruso as Manny Barrington (1992)
- David Rhoden as Merv (1991-1992)
- Jill Setter as Tara (1991-1992)
- Mike Speller as Mr. Elliott Lippman